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From Windows to Aperture - Interview with Ben McMillan
Ben McMillan has been a working photographer in Beijing for more than four years. During that time, he's seen the city go through dramatic changes, leading up to the Olympics. In this conversation, Ben talks about his Beijing experience, and how he also went through a personal change when he discovered Aperture during the games. Read From Windows to Aperture - Interview with Ben McMillan.

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O'Reilly Media's Inside Aperture site draws upon community expertise to provide you with tips and real-life experiences from professional shooters who use Apple's premier photo management application to organize, edit, and output their images. This site features weblogs, articles, podcasts, and tutorials—all focused to help you improve your digital photography workflow. If you'd like to contribute to Inside Aperture, please send mail to

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My Apple-Centric Life
October 10, 2008
After a series of unsuccessful attempts to recover the contents of my laptop’s internal hard drive I realized it was necessary to replace it and start fresh. Once I was finished installing Leopard and going through a series of software...…read more

– Micah Walter

I'm Stayin Home
October 9, 2008
I suspect that if you’re reading this blog, your use of Photoshop has gone way, way down. Like the friend that moved away, you just don’t get to visit as often and Aperture's growing list of features and plug-in options...…read more

– Steve Simon

Noise Reduction and Dfine 2.101
October 8, 2008
Most of the time I don’t have a lot of noise in my images. Partially that’s because of the cameras I use, and partially it’s because I try to make sure not to underexpose images. I rarely use ISOs higher...…read more

– Ellen Anon

The unification of images into Aperture
October 7, 2008
Last week, I finally gave up on a long-time personal policy that neatly divided my entire collection of images between professional photographs and personal pictures, between Aperture and iPhoto. I've decided to move everything and merge my entire collection into...…read more

– Dominique James

Aperture + Portable Hard Drive = Efficient
October 7, 2008
I have office space in Sebastopol and Santa Rosa, but just as important, I have a 17" MacBook Pro and a couple of hard drives with me all of the time. Effectively, this means I have my work with me...…read more

– Derrick Story

Aperture to Drupal (and a bonus timelapse)
October 6, 2008
This year I took the plunge and updated most of my websites to Drupal, an open source content management system (CMS) in an attempt to make them easier to manage and update - the idea being that easy updates would prompt me to actually update them.…read more

– Ian Wood

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Reader Submitted Tips for Aperture
May 15, 2008
One of the fun things about running the "Inside Aperture" site is receiving reader contributions. Every now and then a clever new technique shows up in our aperture@oreilly.com mailbox, many of which I try. But why should I get to have all the fun? So, this week I'm sharing a handful of reader-submitted techniques. My guess is that you'll find one or two particularly useful. …continue reading Reader Submitted Tips for Aperture

– Derrick Story

Using the New Adjustment Tools in Aperture 2.0, Part Two
March 11, 2008
In this second of two parts, Ellen Anon (Aperture Exposed and Inside Aperture) takes you through the bottom half of Aperture's Adjustment palette brick by brick. She picks up with the Enhance brick and continues down through the rest of the new tools. This two part article series is a great resource that belongs in any Aperture bookmark list. …continue reading Using the New Adjustment Tools in Aperture 2.0, Part Two

– Ellen Anon

Using the New Adjustment Tools in Aperture 2.0, Part One
March 04, 2008
In this first of two parts, Ellen Anon (Aperture Exposed and Inside Aperture) takes you through the top half of the Adjustment palette brick by brick. This article is a terrific reference piece that that should come in handy time and time again. Next week in Part Two, Ellen picks up with the Enhance brick and continues down through the rest of the adjustments. …continue reading Using the New Adjustment Tools in Aperture 2.0, Part One

– Ellen Anon